[Incubator Wiki] Update of "March2017" by smarthi

[Apache Wiki <wi...@apache.org>]

Dear Wiki user,

You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Incubator Wiki" for change notification.

The "March2017" page has been changed by smarthi:
https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2017?action=diff&rev1=25&rev2=26

Comment:
Adding Pirk Report

  
  Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
  
-   1.
-   2.
-   3.
+ 1. Grow the community to establish diversity of background and expertise.  
+ 2. Establish a formal release process and schedule, allowing for dependable release cycles in a
+    manner consistent with the Apache development process.  
+ 3. Add to and improve the Pirk user documentation and examples both on the
+    website and in the codebase
  
  Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
  aware of?
  
+  Yes. The Pirk community participation and growth has stalled over the last few months.
+  Recently, there's been discussion on the mailing lists about retiring Pirk for now.
  
  
- How has the community developed since the last report?
- 
- 
- 
- How has the project developed since the last report?
+ How has the community developed since the last report?
  
+  The Pirk community has not developed since the last report - no new contributors or
+  committers have been added
  
+ How has the project developed since the last report?
- How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- Please feel free to add your own commentary.
  
+  The project has stalled - the existing community has not been active nor has the community grown.
-   [ ] Initial setup
-   [ ] Working towards first release
-   [ ] Community building
-   [ ] Nearing graduation
-   [ ] Other:
  
- Date of last release:
+ How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  
-   XXXX-XX-XX
+  The podling will not be seeing any activity in the near future, and the consensus has been to retire
+  the podling for now.
  
- When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
+ Date of last release:
  
+   October 9, 2016
  
+ When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
+ 
+  Pirk elected two new committers (Tim Ellison and Suneel Marthi, both
+  mentors) on August 18, 2016.
  
  Signed-off-by:
  
@@ -1088, +1091 @@

       Comments:
    [ ](pirk) Josh Elser
       Comments:
-   [ ](pirk) Suneel Marthi
+   [X](pirk) Suneel Marthi
       Comments:
    [ ](pirk) Tim Ellison
       Comments:
  
  IPMC/Shepherd notes:
  
+ [SM]: Based on recent discussions on Mailing lists the consensus has been to retire Pirk for now,
+  in large part due to unavailability of the full set of initial committers that can steer this project forward.
  
  
  --------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: cvs-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: cvs-help@incubator.apache.org